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...most cosmopolitan and busiest Roman Catholic church in the U.S. is Manhattan's Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Unlike big, stylish St. Patrick Cathedral, St. Francis is small and sandwiched off among office buildings in a crowded section near Pennsylvania Station...
Most of the worshippers at St. Francis of Assisi are transients: out-of-towners, hotel guests, office workers, commuters and clients of St. Anthony, whose National Shrine is the lower church. Though the two churches hold only 1,355 at a time, it is a poor Sunday that 5,000 don't hear Mass there- there are 13 Masses every Sunday. Its staff of 60 priests hears about half a million confessions a year. On holy days (26 Masses), attendance usually climbs to something over 20,000. Sometimes seven and eight Masses are said at the same time...
...Roman Catholic Church, traditionally circumspect in the matter of miracles, had for weeks remained aloof while the legend of Pierrette Regimbal grew & grew (TIME, Oct. 1). The legend said that 13-year-old Pierrette had been visited by St. Francis of Assisi, could work miraculous cures.* The Church noted that thousands of ailing pilgrims were visiting Pierrette's homemade grotto in predominantly Catholic Quebec, and that hundreds of others were writing to beg shipments of water from Pierrette's well...
Visiosn of Saint Francis. Pierrette Regimbal is a frail, pale child, seventh in a French Canadian family of twelve. Since early childhood she has been lame. One day about five years ago Pierette was playing near home when she believed she saw Saint Francis of Assisi. She touched the saint's hands. Then she saw that her own hands were bloodstained. Her lameness, she said, was momentarily cured. (She still uses crutchees...
...Assisi, site of 700-year-old San Francesco, oldest Gothic church in Italy, escaped unscathed...